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...global sales campaign may be a good idea. In August, the Art Newspaper reported that Hirst's London gallery White Cube had a backlog of over 200 of his unsold works, worth more than $185 million. If the story is correct - the gallery says it's not, but hasn't detailed how many Hirsts it has on hand - it would mean that Hirst has run into that age-old problem of factory production: excess inventory. A few weeks ago Bloomberg.com quoted Robert Sandelson, a London gallerist who has dealt in Hirst, about the "pressure" that overproduction has placed...
...dealers Hirst will continue to work with are two of the most prominent in the business: the American Larry Gagosian (who has galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Rome) and Jay Jopling, a longtime friend of Hirst's who owns London's White Cube gallery. When Sotheby's announced the Hirst sale, it immediately set off speculation that other artists - the ones with enough clout - would also bolt the gallery system. The two most obvious possibilities are the American Jeff Koons and the Japanese Takashi Murakami. Both have, just like Hirst, global name recognition and a squad...
...HOTEL SEMIRAMIS, ATHENS Springing from the mind of Egyptian-British designer Karim Rashid, Hotel Semiramis (www.semiramisathens.com) has a glowing pink-glass cube for a lobby, home to a rotating collection of hypermodern, provocative art. Much of the work is on loan from owner Dakis Joannou, founder of the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens. Currently, the lobby's centerpiece is the compelling image of artist Vanessa Beecroft's own highly stylized wedding in an Italian chapel, with all the guests dressed in white. It's wittily complemented by Tim Noble and Sue Webster's huge flashing YES sculpture...
Maybe that means Palin is a little too much Northern Exposure for America - after all, her father's good friend Curt Menard happily showed me a picture of the governor as a high schooler in 1981, in a root cellar with family and friends, helping skin and cube and cure a whole moose. It's enough to make you almost miss fake hunters like John Kerry and Mitt Romney...
...fabulous show. Volunteers were unfailingly polite, constantly showering foreigners with a chirpy "Beijing warmly welcomes you." Events kept to a strict time schedule and positive drug tests were far fewer than in previous Games. The stadiums, from the latticed Bird's Nest to the ethereal Water Cube, stunned audiences with their architectural bravado. And the sheer athletic drama was, as it always is during any Olympics, astonishing...